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Friday, August 14, 2009

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Mr. Weasel is often befuddled by the behavior of Boy Weasel. The Mr. will ask Boy a relatively simple question about his day and only get a half hearted one word response. A good example is

"How was practice today?""Fine.""Well, what did you do?""I don't know, nothing. Ran.""What did coach say about.....?""Nothing, I don't remember."

This conversation easily translates to school, friends, parties, anything really. I laugh because I have had many similar equally frustrating conversations with Mr. Weasel over the years. Mr Weasel has never understood my frustration, until now.

When Boy Weasel does have something to say, his mannerisms, facial expressions and enthusiasm crack me up. He is just a shorter version of is father.

The most recent light bulb moment for Mr. Weasel was this morning. While He and I sat drinking our coffee, checking email and watching the news, Boy Weasel made his way down the stairs and through the living room. Wordless and without eye contact he headed for the office.

MR. W ~ Good morning son, where are you going? What are you doing?Boy ~without missing a step or turning his head ~ I just need to check something (on the computer).Mr. W ~ You don't say good morning?Boy ~entering the living room again ~ Okay, I just had to check my page. It's all good. Good morning. (complete with a good morning kiss for each of us)

Boy Weasel then proceed back to the office and computer. Mr. Weasel, just shook his head in confusion. He didn't understand Boy's behavior. I on the other hand got a good chuckle. "You start your day the exact same way". "Huh".

Awww. That's cute. Kyle is a lot like his dad, too. The key to getting kids to say more than a word or two is to ask open-ended questions. So, instead of How was your day? and accepting "Good" or "Okay," ask, "What was good about it?" My kids hate that :)

I think you're doing pretty good if you can at least understand the few words he does manage to say to you. My middle kid grunts and mumbles at me and I have to ask him umpteen times to repeat himself.

I don't think it's exclusive to boys/men. I don't have any boys and my daughters can "zone" and "monosyllable" with the best of them. They also have the ability to completely ignore their mother when they are less than three feet away (well, they ignore me as well). My eldest has also picked up my admittedly infuriating tendency to 180 on things at the first opposition. "Let's just not do that (insert whatever) at all!" The girls have picked up a few of their mother's choice qualities as well........

It's always entertaining to see my husband in the wee ones. And there are definitely some parts that sneak through. Then again, I see me in certain things that I would NEVER have thought were genetic :)

And Claire? I love the angel. Especially her blue eyes. Great job by both ladies!

Watching Niecey pick up behaviors is amusing at times, though sometimes it sucks because she of course has to pick up bad ones! She lives with four adults and I definitely pick out stuff from all four. So far I have not recognized anything from myself, lol.